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Date Title & Description Contributors
2014-07-16

  What would an environmentally sustainable reproductive technology industry look like?

Through the use of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) multiple children are born, adding to worldwide carbon emissions.According to a paper in JME, evaluating the ethics of offering reproductive services against its overall harm to the environme...
  BMJ talk medicine author
2014-01-20

  Are Homebirths Immoral?

Home births are slightly more risky than hospital births, so does this mean it's immoral for women to have one?Lachlan de Crespigny and obstetrician and gynechologist from the University of Melbourne, and Julian Savulescu, from the faculty of philosoph...
  BMJ talk medicine author
2013-05-02

  Journal of Medical Ethics podcast: Infanticide is never justified.

Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford explains why he believes abortion should be permissible before 18 weeks, but not beyond. Whilst he believes there may always be an element of arbitrariness in cho...
  BMJ talk medicine author
2013-05-02

  Journal of Medical Ethics podcast: Infanticide is sometimes justified.

Jeff McMahan, Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University argues that, with our current medical knowledge, there are around four months where a foetus would survive if it were born prematurely. Therefore, the main difference between infanticide and a...
  BMJ talk medicine author